Anthony and Damian Cunningham are two English school boys and together with their combined knowledge of saints and money they must overcome many obstacles. The pair have big decisions to make, needing to reconcile their wildly different ideas about what to do with the cash.

Some parts were a little outlandish, but that's often the case with children's books so it didn't bother me. I probably wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone because I think that it’s just very boring and that there’s no real climax in the entire story. Millions is about two young brothers who come across millions of pounds and their decisions on what they do with it. Then the next day when they come home from school they realize that crooks stole the rest of the money that was in the bag! I would recommend this story to anyone above the age of ten, for there is some difficult language that would be hard for children to understand.Furthermore, we are caught in a ‘should they/ shouldn’t they’ moral dilemma of whether Damian and Anthony should hand in the money. When a huge bag stuffed with more than 200,000 quid comes flying out of the sky and into Damian’s cardboard “hermitage” (i. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. Frank's first book, Millions, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2004 and has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2004. Set in England just before British adoption of the euro (a fictional event) the story features two boys who must decide what to do with a windfall in expiring currency.

Other than that, though, Millions was a good read, and I recommend it to people looking for a fairly challenging book. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). I thought the story was ok because it was touching but not to the point of other stories that are out there. However, the humour is pretty British, so if you don't get British humour you will just find it weird.

While I adored Damien's saint-fixation and his brother's promiscuous obsession with finance, I felt the book ending with some moral ambiguity. I liked the theme of the story and I thought it told a very important lesson that everyone should learn, however I was indifferent about the book as a whole. When he prays for guidance and a giant bag of money falls out of the sky, he figures God has sent it. Archived 8 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners.

The writing was very well-paced for a television generation, since the author wrote Millions first as a screenplay it maintains a highly visual and plot-driven style. I disliked this part of the book because the boys were acting juvenile and I think that they were too concerned with their hatred for anyone that threatens their mom’s place that they didn’t realize what a nice person Dorothy was. Boyce’s book will certainly capture the interest of its target audience of upper school-age and middle-school readers. Seventeen days until Euros, seventeen days to use up more than two hundred and thirty thousand pounds.Through this novel The brothers are facing a newer, harder challenge everyday and as the saying goes "what goes up must come down" this is the perfect description of the Cunningham brothers journey, The money is giving them everything but it is also losing everything good they had especially when glass eye comes along. The younger brother (and narrator) Damian tries his best to be excellent and to do good work every day.